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26 Apr 2010

Fables vol 3: Storybook Love by Bill Willingham

1b454156c1645c67e637813e3b9a9b74Ah, Love.  I don’t read about you that much, but I’m a sucker for you, when I do (and O.K., sometimes your friend lust, too).

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26 April, 2010 at 13:55 by J.T. Oldfield

Tags: 19th century, fairy tales, fantasy, graphic novels, humor, pop culture, Series, war
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20 Mar 2010

Fables vol 2: Animal Farm by Bill Willingham

fables_2_mediumRose Red, you traitorous bitch!  

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20 March, 2010 at 12:18 by J.T. Oldfield

Tags: fairy tales, fantasy, graphic novels, humor, politics, pop culture, Series, war
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16 Mar 2010

Fables Vol 1: Legends in Exile by Bill Willingham

fables-vol-1I’d been looking forward to beginning the Fables series for some time, and I gotta say, I wasn’t disappointed!

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16 March, 2010 at 13:29 by J.T. Oldfield

Tags: fairy tales, fantasy, graphic novels, humor, mystery, pop culture, Series, war
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15 Mar 2010

Manga Shakespeare: Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare & Mustashirk Mahbab

MangaJuliusCaesarPerhaps it is the nature of Comedy vs. Tragedy, but of the two Manga Shakespeare editions I’ve read so far, I liked A Midsummer Night’s Dream much better.

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15 March, 2010 at 19:20 by J.T. Oldfield

Tags: ancient times, British authors, graphic novels, historical fiction, play, politics, Shakespeareish, war
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9 Feb 2010

The Forgotten Legion by Ben Kane

9780312601249About 200 pages into this 500+ page epic, I figured out that this most be book 1 of a series.  The main characters had not even joined the army yet.

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9 February, 2010 at 23:23 by J.T. Oldfield

Tags: adventure, ancient times, coming of age, historical fiction, mythology, religion, war
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7 Feb 2010

Spike: After the Fall by Brian Lynch and Franco Urru

spike_atf_cvr400Poor, poor Spike.  He gets a made a vampire, gets dumped by his sire after more than 100 years of love and mayhem, falls in love with a slayer, gets a chip put in his brain by the government, gets a soul, gets the chip out, dies in the Hellmouth, gets brought back to Wolfram & Hart but is incorporeal, gets all corporealized, saves the world (again), and lands, with the rest of L.A., in Hell.

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7 February, 2010 at 15:57 by J.T. Oldfield

Tags: adventure, dystopia, fantasy, graphic novels, humor, pop culture, war
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20 Jan 2010

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford

Hotel_fnThe Panama Hotel, the hotel in question in this book, is located in the International District, in Seattle, my adopted city.  I’d heard of it before, but never given it much thought.

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20 January, 2010 at 12:54 by J.T. Oldfield

Tags: Asian/Asian-American, coming of age, historical fiction, war
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22 Oct 2009

Unpredictable Crossing by Jonna-Lynn K Mandelbaum

coverWell, I have some good things and bad things to say about this book.

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22 October, 2009 at 12:07 by J.T. Oldfield

Tags: adventure, Africa, female authors, historical fiction, religion, war
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28 Sep 2009

Strange But True America by John Hafnor

strange_but_true_america_lgHere are some of the things I learned reading this book: Read the rest of this entry »

28 September, 2009 at 11:03 by J.T. Oldfield

Tags: adventure, archaeology, economics, education, history, medicine, politics, religion, war
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21 Sep 2009

Poland by James Michener

n141000In European History and Western Civilization classes, at least in the U.S., you pretty much study England, France, a little bit of Germany, some Italy, possibly some Russia, and maybe a bit of the Spanish and Vikings.  I’m half Polish (on my Mom’s side), and have always been annoyed with this.  So it was with great relish that I read Michener’s epic, Poland.

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21 September, 2009 at 16:31 by J.T. Oldfield

Tags: adventure, economics, historical fiction, politics, religion, war
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